Manhattan Short Film Festival

The twenty-seventh annual Manhattan Short Film Festival will be screened on Saturday, September 28, 2024, starting at 7pm in the Orange Bank and Trust Company Great Room 101 in Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange. Admission is $5. SUNY Orange students enter free.

Be an active participant by voting for Best Film and Best Actor in this worldwide event by casting your ballet which you will receive upon entry. At the conclusion of the screening, you will have the opportunity to vote. The votes from all venues on six continents will be tallied and those results will be released along with the local votes of SUNY Orange viewers via a Cultural Affairs e-blast on October 7.

All Final Ten short films are Oscar-qualified. The following are the films and the countries from which they were submitted:

The Talent (UK),

I’m Not a Robot (The Netherlands),

Mother (Ukraine),

Dovecote (Italy),

Pathological (USA),

Alarms (France),

Favourites (Australia),

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatia),

Room Taken (Ireland),

Jane Austen’s Period Drama (USA).

Free, secure parking is available in Kaplan Hall parking garage entered at 73 First St, Newburgh. Questions may be directed to cultural@sunyorange.edu and checkout website www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs